A grand white marble building of 1921 in memory of Queen Victoria, set in gardens, with a museum of the British period and the history of Kolkata. It's beautiful at sunset.
Kolkata also has the Howrah Bridge, the flower market below it, Mother Teresa's Mother House, and Kumartuli, where craftsmen make clay idols for festivals. Try sweets such as rasgulla.
A 13th-century temple to the sun god Surya, built in the shape of a giant stone chariot with 24 carved wheels drawn by seven horses, a UNESCO World H…
A hilltop 11 km from Darjeeling, at 2,590 m, famous for the view at sunrise as the first light turns the snowy summit of Kangchenjunga, the world's t…
A narrow-gauge mountain railway, opened in 1881, that winds up from the plains to Darjeeling on tracks only 2 feet wide, through loops and zigzags, a…
Stay in any of Darjeeling's cheap guesthouses, but treat yourself to tea in one of the old colonial hotels.
One of Darjeeling's oldest tea gardens, founded in 1854, on the hillside just below the town.
The largest monastery in Sikkim and the main seat in exile of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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